Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-04-20
HAPPENINGS,
Gossip From Burlington and Rocker
About Their Citizens and
Their Schools.

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BURLINGTON.
Superintendent Fleming went East Mon.
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. D. Aiken and Miss Alice
Rogers have been visiting friends here.
Mr.. Walker, OF Centerville, was enter.
tanned by Burlington friends Thursday.
A Sunday school was organized last Sun.
! day. The attendance was encouraging.
Judge Knox with his smiling counte
nance greeted Burlington friends Thursday.
Grading has been completed and the car.
penters are at work building the Windsor
| Hotel addition.
Wednesday night a burglar entered Ed.
wards boarding house. He was arrested
and handed over to the custody of the
| Sheriff.
Next Saturday Miss Layton. the County
School Superintendent, will visit the school
and select a location for the new school
building.
Mr.. Paxon. the teacher, is giving excel
lent satisfaction. The seats are all filled
and a number of chairs have been borrowed
in order to accommodate more pupils.
The Pioneer Saloon which was so badly
demoralized in a riot Wednesday will be
opened Monday by a party from Butte.
He will first be obliged to invest in window
panes.
Mr.. Van Zandt, president OF the Blue
Bird, did not bring his family on his return
from Europe as was at first reported. He
started Tuesday for London and will re-
turn with his family in about two months.
If the County Commissioner wish to save
expense for the taxpayers, it would be well
to take immediate steps to appoint a JUS.
tice of the peace and constable for Burling-
ton, Browns Gulch, Turnersville and
Rocker.
The library donated by Mrs. Van Zandt
to the employees of the Blue Bird mine is
we'll ~patronized. The building is near the
office. and the library is quite extensive
and we'll selected. 1t reflects great credit
on the donor.
Mr.. Williams who was injured in an e1-
plosion in the Blue Bird has entirely re-
covered. This is the second time he has
been hurt in this way. The first time be
came near losing his eyes, in examining a
fuse. He must bear a charmed life to meet
with two such narrow escapes.
The school question is the main topic Of
the day. The Burlington tax payers op.
pose dividing the school district for sew.
eral reasons. First, they claim the new
school house will be large enough to ac.
C immediate both Rocker and Burlington
children; second, by dividing the district
they would only be able to have the school
session last four months out of the year,
third, that the Rocker children have at
tended the South Butte school, which is
much farther; fourth, that there is not
enough taxable property for two school
houses. 1t has been suggested, if each can.
not nave a separate school, that the new
school house be built midway between the
two opposing communities.
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L. Grafton visited this place Tuesday,
A great many men are arriving daily in
search of work.
Cook & Shaw are replenishing their stock
OF groceries this week.
A number of families have located IN
Rocker during the past few days.
Mr.. Lee Graft has rented the Blue Bird
Restaurant. and opened up Tuesday.
Another express will soon be added be-
tween Rocker and Butte, making three in
all.
Mr.. Carminy is painting and otherwise
improving his residence, one OF the finest
buildings in Rocker.
Mr.. D. N. Shaw lost a check for S12o
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boarding house and his store.
Miss Margaret Pratt and brother re-
turned from the Springs Wednesday even
ing. They report a pleasant visit.
Mr.. L. johnson has the whole town to
himself in tine Williams Concentrator He.
however, boards the men who ar eemployed
at the concentration.
Mr.. Cyrus Donovan, shift-foreman OF the
Blue Bird Mill, laid off recently on account
OF sickness, is at work again. In the mean
time he visited his Walkerville relatives.
The Rocker school house has not yet
been dedicated. The citizens all want the
district divided from Burlington, claiming
tits too far to send the children to tns
burlington s''hool, and there are enough
children in the community to justify a d.
vision of the district.
MINING NOTES.
The Nettie has sunk 400 feet and struck
base ore.
The Burlington Mine has sunk a ne"
shalt, called the Independent Mine.
The shaft OF the Blue Bird and cross
cuts have been lighted with el-ctrlcls.
The mine presents q beautiful appearance
when lighted.
The Williams Concentration was snus
Gown Tor repairs. but commenced ~oa
Thursday evening. Mr.. Karkee, the lor
man, was summoned to England by ,s
Illness OF a brother. Michael kerno taA7
his place.
lhe Garihaldi mine, under lease to sou"
OF the n abitants of the Sunny oouIn,
mas sunk 100 feet. The yield IS num
90 TO l25 ounces. it also contains Ho" y,
very rich wire silver. New boilers haVea''